Sentence examples for activate a part of from inspiring English sources

The reason, as revealed in brain scans Dehaene ran on different volunteers, is that approximate problems activate a part of the brain that deals with visual and spatial relationships rather than words.

That's because stress may activate a part of the brain associated with empathy.

Daniel Goleman has suggested that eye contact activates a part of the brain called the orbitofrontal cortex, which plays a role in empathy and mirroring one another's emotions.

When you learn something new, a group of neurons activate in a part of the brain called the hippocampus.

This slight difference may be explained by a difference in the activating activity of 1,25(OH)2D3 and forskolin at different doses, although it is also possible that forskolin activated only a part of the signaling pathways activated by 1,25(OH)2D3.

So let's say someone was a tennis player, and we know that tennis players, when they think about a serve, activate a particular part of their brain.

It is sleep deprivation that activates a part of our brains that is not otherwise active during waking.

p38α mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase is widely expressed in many mammalian tissues and is activated as a part of signal transduction cascades that respond to inflammatory stimuli.

In states of pain, the endogenous OR system is activated as a part of our endogenous analgesic system and is the target of administered opioid analgesic drugs.

The accumulation of ZmNAC41 transcript preceeded fungal penetration of the host tissue, suggesting that this transcription factor is activated as a part of the basal defence response.

In alphabetic scripts like English, in which letters map directly onto sounds, phonology is activated as a part of word recognition, and plays a critical role in this process (e.g. Frost, 1998; see review in Perfetti, Liu & Tan, 2005).